Hours per week

So it takes forever to read even a short book when you only read half an hour a day.

I’m reading The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente, which I am enjoying a lot. However, I’ve had hardly any chance to read it in the last three days.

On Sunday, I went to church, came home, made four dozen cookies, did two loads of laundry, wrote three articles, went to a Super Bowl party (where all four dozen cookies got eaten), came home and read for thirty minutes before falling asleep in the chair.

On Monday, I went to work, ran an errand during lunch, read for thirty minutes, worked and came home, wrote in the evening, and read for less than twenty minutes before falling asleep in the chair.

And today during lunch I ran another errand and read for only thirty minutes. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland is 272 pages long, so even if I read two pages a minute, which I don’t, I haven’t spent enough time reading in the last three days to finish anything.

So now I am going to give it a good hour and a half to see this thing through. Because tomorrow for WWW Wednesday, I cannot still be reading the same book I was reading on Sunday. That would be nonsense.